Matt Frei , Europe Editor and Presenter
Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
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America waits on Biden decision after president’s Covid isolation
The President hasn’t been seen since Wednesday last week.
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5m
Democratic Presidential pick ‘should not be about protecting one man’, says rival candidate
Joe Biden is said to be “seething” at the apparent disloyalty of his own party.
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Donald Trump is ‘incapable’ of change, says niece
We spoke to Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump – a psychologist and author who’s written a book about the family.
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Biden candidacy needs to be resolved ‘very soon’, says Democratic pollster
We spoke to Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump – a psychologist and author who’s written a book about the family.
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Trump-Vance platform is ‘dismantling American state into chaos’, says historian
We spoke to Yale University historian Timothy Snyder who has written extensively about the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and whose new book “On Freedom” explores the fragility of democracy.
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‘A three-point poll lead shouldn’t mean we force Biden out’, says political strategist
We spoke to Cornell Belcher, a political strategist and pollster who worked for the Democratic Party on both of Obama’s presidential campaigns.
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RNC speech: has Donald Trump really changed after shooting?
An assassination attempt, J.D. Vance – a relatively unknown Ohio Senator – picked as Donald Trump’s Vice President, and current President Joe Biden desperately clinging on to his own nomination – it’s been another huge week in American politics and there’s still one day left at the Republican National Convention where Donald Trump is due to speak – so what will happen next?
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Former Trump opponents back him for presidency in show of Republican unity
Party political get-togethers like the Republican National Convention are an opportunity for the faithful to hang out and to celebrate their brand and their man.
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‘Vance and Trump say what people are thinking’, says Republican
We were joined by Greg Swenson, chairman of Republicans Overseas UK.
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US politics ‘going through transformation’ – pollster Frank Luntz
We spoke to the pollster Frank Luntz, and started by asking him whether Trump’s choice for vice president was a good pick.
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5m
JD Vance: Who is Trump’s running mate?
Donald Trump’s defiant fist in the air has already become the symbol of his election campaign, endlessly echoed by attendees in Milwaukee.
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‘If Trump gives conciliatory speech…it could end the race’, says former Trump chief of staff
We were joined by Mick Mulvaney, a former White House chief of Staff for Donald Trump and by Democrat strategist, Julie Roginsky.
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‘We’re going to see a very different President Trump’, says Milwaukee County Republican Party chair
We were joined by Hilario Deleon, Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party.
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Trump seeks Republican nomination as FBI hunts for shooter motive
Saturday’s shooting may have thrown the political establishment into disarray, but one thing has stayed exactly the same – there is no question that Donald Trump is the king of the Republican party.
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‘Europe can do more’ to help Ukraine, says a former defence secretary
We spoke to the former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace who stood down last summer, and left the Commons after the election last week.
